Is grade inflation really a problem?
In the good old days, students received grades of A,B,C,D,F
(or A,B,C,D,E, depending on where you grew up.)
Nowadays the corresponding grades at Dartmouth
might be something like A+ for an old A, A or A- for B, B+ or B for C,
C+ or C for D, and C- for F.
So what?
What difference does this change of scale make, and to whom?

In what sense has Stanford reinstated the grade of F?

One aspect of the reforms at Stanford that is not brought out in this
article is that students will no longer be able to withdraw from a course
just before the final exam.
What effects might the change have?
Do you think this change is a good idea?

What do you think of Dartmouth's proposal to report the median grade?
What concrete effects would you expect Dartmouth's new grading policy
to have?
Do you think this change is a good idea?

Give an example of a list of grades for a class
where the median grade could be either B or D.
What should the registrar report as the median grade in a case like this?

At the Dartmouth faculty meeting at which the new grading policy was
adopted, there was some discussion of whether it would be better to
report the average grade for the class, rather than the median grade.
(Some observers noted that some usually voluble faculty members were
uncharacteristically silent during this discussion, perhaps because
they were not too clear about the difference
between these two measures.) What difference do you think it would make?
Which measure would be better?
Which measure would appeal most to the best students? How about the
worst students?